This is a story where a nearby plant asked for assistance when a
fire broke out. Sohar Aluminium responded with assistance. The Aluminium Plant
Safety Blog commends Sohar Aluminium in responding to call and providing fire
extinguishers to assist in suppressing this large fire.
Fire fighters battled for nearly 21 hours to control a major blaze
that broke out at Sohar Steel, a steel melt shop in Sohar industrial area on
Thursday evening. No casualties were reported.
The fire that began at around 6.45pm on Thursday, May 3 was
controlled and the area cooled down by 3.45pm Friday.
As many as 80 Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulances
(PACDA) personnel, three large fire tenders, three 10,000lt water tankers and
13 small PACDA vehicles were pressed into service apart from Special Tasks
Police Command officials, fire extinguishers from Sohar Aluminium, Oman Oil
Refineries and Petrochemicals Company and a urea plant from the Sohar
industrial area. Nine water tankers from the Royal Army of Oman also joined the
efforts. The fire erupted in the steel, plastic and oil scrap at the factory,
which is the backward integration of the Sharq Sohar Steel Rolling Mills.
In a media statement, Ismail Karam al Balushi, director of civil
defence in North Batinah said, “Fire fighting teams managed to control the fire
despite large quantities of inflammable material. It was found that gas
cylinders and oil barrels were causing the fire to spread.” Ahmed al Hosni,
PACDA’s public relations officer, said a fire investigation team, accompanied
by ROP officials, will look at the cause.”
Even though this incident occurred at a steel mill, our industry
can learn from this instance. In terms of proper storage of gas cylinders and
oil barrels. The APSB has posted incidents where improper storage of gas
cylinders were a source of fuel in a fire. Congratulations to Sohar on providing
assistance.
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